Saturday, November 23, 2002

Soyuz 22

 1976-093A


The reserve EPAS Soyuz 7K-TM spaceship, 11F615A12 No. 74, was refurbished and the APAS docking system replaced with an MKF-6 multispectral camera for Earth resources work. Spacecraft 74 was launched in Sep 1976 and named Soyuz-22; crew were Valeriy Bykovskiy and Vladimir Aksyonov. The Soyuz-22 spaceship entered a 65 degree inclination orbit, the first use of such an orbit for a piloted flight since the Voskhod program in 1965.


Soyuz-22 
 

DateTimeEventOrbit  

1976 Sep 15  0948:30  Launch by Soyuz-U  KB 
 0950 Blok BVGD sep 
 0953  Blok A sep 
 0957  Blok I MECO 
 0958Blok I sep
 1245   89.30 184 x 296 x 64.75 
 1830   89.59 249 x 260 x 64.75 
 2100MKF-6 cover sep 
1976 Sep 20  1630   89.50 246 x 254 x 64.76 
1976 Sep 23  0658?  Retrofire 
 0701?  DO CO 
 0712?  Modules sep 
 0717?  Entry 
 0740:47  Landed 140 km NW of Tselinograd

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